Chilling out on Kande Beach mid way down lake Malawi - so hard to believe its a lake as you can't see anything in either direction and the waves lap on the beach just like a sea (call me stupid but I was suprised by this!!) I helped to slaughter a pig last night - gross yes but good experience and helped with skinning during the ritual - we are roasting the poor chap this evening when we have a fancy dress party will tuck in!! ... for some reason the fancy dress...

Well after 2 glorious days on the beach in the North of Zanzibar (massaged, henna'd and with a lot of new local drinking buddies) we headed back to Dar on the lunchtime (aka vomit) catamaran :) I survived (just) and we made it back to our beach to camp in Dar before the 4.30 (yes seriously) start on our 3 day trip across Tanzania to Malawi. Driving days were for the most part ok - ive managed to find a gap between two seats on the truck i can just about squeeze ...